Re: AbiWord 0.5.2

Darren Benham (gecko@benham.net)
Fri, 19 Mar 1999 15:59:06 -0800


On Fri, Mar 19, 1999 at 02:26:49PM -0800, Paul Rohr wrote:
> 1. Jeff expanded the XAP framework to add mechanisms for XP preferences
> (stored in an XML file, of course) and XP StringSets (for localizing
> messages, etc.). Among the new preference settings now honored are:
>
> - whether to autospell, what dictionary to use, where it is
> - toolbar/menu layouts and styles
> - ruler units (in, cm, pi, pt)
> - etc.
Is there documentation for this that I missed somewhere or will I have to
dig in the code to find it?

> 3. Shaw got in some more improvements to the Word importer, and handed it
> off to Justin, who's working on a cleaner implementation. (Just say no to
> dual-importer strategies which do memory-intensive tricks with XML buffers.)
Especially this. I wanted to test various word97 documents I have floating
around here to see how it is...



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